ISA+2002

The Social World in the Twenty First Century: Ambivalent Legacies and Rising Challenges Brisbane, Australia, 2002
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 * ** XV ISA World Congress of Sociology **

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Programme Coordinator: Alain Chouraqui CNRS,35 Ave Jules Ferry13626 Aix-en-Provence Cedex,France,Fax: 33-4-42267937,chouraq@univ-aix.fr This provisional RC10 programme has been built on the basis of the following keywords (always in relation with RC10 general theme of participation):globalization;workplace and industrial relations;organization;democracy;property;culture;participatory research. Several sessions are provisional and their allocation depends on the number of paper givers registered to the congress in January 2002. If a title of the session is given in two or three lannguages (English,French,Spanish) that means that any of those languages can be used at the session. Paper proposals shall be sent before September 30, 2001 to sessions chairs. Session 1. Opening session Rising challenges of participation,organisationall democracy and self-management in the globalization context Los nuevos retos dela participación,la democracia organizacional y la autogestión en el contexto de la globalización Défis nouveaux pour la participation, la démocratie organisationnelle et I'autogestion dans le contexte de la mondialisation Chairs: Walter Frantz, Brazil, wfrantz@unijui.tche.br, Gyórgy Szell,Germany, gszell@uni-osnabrueck.de,Vera Vratusa,Yugoslavia, vvratusa@dekart.f.bg.ac.yu A. Sessions focussed on congress symposia themes Session 2. Knowledge, creativity and communication:participation as a long learning process Chairs:Richard Ruzicka,Czech Republic,richard.ruzicka@pedf.cni.cz, Heinz Süenker,Germany,suenker@uni-wuppertal.de B. Sessions on other topics Session 3. Workers' direct and representative participation in new organisational forms Chairs: Bill Harley,Australia,b.harley@ecomfac.unimelb.edu.au, Jan Kees Looise,Netherlands,j.c.looise@sms.utwente.nl Session 4. Participation and property: privatization and/or democratization? Chairs: Volkmar Kreissig,Bulgaria,vOlkmar@mlsp.government.bg,Michal Palgi,Israel,palgi@research.haifa.ac.il Session 5. Participation in various cultural areas and communities: diversity and common challenges Participación en áreas culturales y comunidades diversas:diversidad y retos comunes Chairs:Dasarath Chetty,South Africa,tdchetty@pixie.udw.ac.za,Richard Harris,USA,richard_harris@monterey.edu Session 6. Financial participation and/or organisational democracy Chairs: Litsa Nicolaou-Smokoviti,Greece,Inicola@otenet.gr, Edward Zammit,Malta,ezam1@um.edu.mt Session 7. Participation in network organisations and society La participation dans des organisations et une société en réseau Chair: Aake Sandberg,Sweden, ake.sandberg@niwl.se Session 8. Co-operatives,social enterprises and social auditing: engaging members and other stakeholders Chair: Leslie Brown,Canada,leslie.brown@msvu.ca Session 9. Participation at globallevel: Porto Alegre and the World Social Forum Participación en el plano global: Porto Alegre y el Foro Social Mundial Chairs: Azril Bacal,Sweden,azril@spray.se, Candido Grzybowski,Brazil,candido@ibase.br Session 10. Participative management in Third World countries: retrospect and prospect Chair: Shashi Hiremath,slhiremath1 @rediffmail.com,India C. Sessions proposed by RC10 Ibero-American Subcommittee Session 11. Partipación en comunidades: un balance de perspectivas teóricas y prácticas Chairs: Sergio Contreras,Chile,scontreras@cis.es, Carlos Gadsden,Mexico,cgads@prodigy.net.mx Session 12. La sociedad de la información: conocimiento y poder Chairs: Antonio Lucas,Spain,lucas@eucmax.sim.ucm.es, Alejandro Piscitelli,Argentina,apiscitelli@austral.edu.ar D. RC10 Sessions organized in cooperation with other organizations Session 13.Multi-Ievel participation in industrial relations systems Organized with the Study Group on Participation of the International Industrial Relations Association Chair:Wiking Ehlert,Germany,wiking-ehlert@t-online.de, Ray Markey,Australia, rmarkey@uow.edu.au  Session 14. Nouvelles formes de gestion participative et nouveaux équilibres de pouvoir dans I'entreprise Organized with the Research Committee on Sociology of Industrial Relations and of TradeUnionism of AISLF Chairs:Reynald Bourque,Canada,reynald.bourque@umontreal.ca, Habib Guiza,Tunisia,habibguiza@yahoo.fr, Annette Jobert, France,annette.jobert@u-paris1 O.fr Session 15. Actors' participation in the research processes:participatory research and action-research Organized with three international networks Humanization of Work and Organizational Democracy, In Search of the Good Society-the Kibbutz and Other Experiences,and Regional and Local Development of Work and Labour. Chairs: Davydd Greenwood,USA,djg6@cornell.edu, Manfred Moldasch,Germany,manfred.moldaschl @soziologie.wiso.tu-muenchen.de, Bruce Wilson,Australia,zbruce@minyos.its.rmit.eu.au Special session 1. Nouveaux et anciens acteurs des conflitset des négociations Nuevos y viejos actores en los conflictos y los procesos de negociación Joint session of RC10 and RC30 Sociology of Work (to be confirmed) Chairs: Armando Steinko,Spain,asteinko@emp.ucm.es, Diane-GabrielleTremblay, Canada,diane-gabrielle_tremblay@teluq.uquebec.ca Focussed session. The ambivalence of participation in organisational change. Challenges for democracy and efficiency Special integrative session of RC10 Participation and Self-Management, RC17 Sociology of Organization, RC18 Political Sociology, RC26 Sociotechnics, Sociological Practice, RC32 Women and Society, RC36 Alienation Theory and Research -source: ISA bulletin [|__83-84__]